>Could this mean that you could void the GPL after the initial sale in Germany? Nope.
>If I've gotten a CD (say in the back of >O'Reilly's Apache book) can I now sell that >CD for more than the cost of the media? Of course you can. Why shouldn't you?
I wonder why nobody (at 2+) mentioned this to be absoluetly dependent on the english language. While qwerty has it's drawbacks, you can adapt it easily to any script using latin characters and not quite easily to any script using a similar alphabet. To use Fitaly with anything but English is stupid.
It took Germany about 20 years from November 1918 to November 1938.
Did they last long? Exactly
That's beyond the point. The change did take place and the German people did not get rid of it themselves. The level of technology was high (just think of Zuse), but you don't need that for control. Some camps and later the eastern front did nicely, thank you.
I think that 1984 is the only book everyone should read, and I see a certain kind of novel becoming history books since The Sheep look up, so I'm certainly not one to disagree with the general idea of Database Nation.
But from what I take from the reviews (the book is ordered), the book puts slightly to much blame on the government. Most people forget that the government is not independent from its citizens. So if no laws exists that prevent data abuse, there are not enough people who cares.
For another look at the matter I recommend David Brin's Transparent Society.
Pretty soon you end up with kids that have a real swearing problem There is no swearing problem. If you children use swear words without meaning it, you have to explain the words. If your kids wants to show disgust for something or disrespect, they would use swear words or anything else they can think of.
And eventually, those labels end up circling back to us, the parents, and it tells people that we're not doing a good job So your reputation is what you care about?
Not only that, but kids with swearing problems often end up in a downward spiral that involves them with crime (theft, etc.) It's that kind of superficiality sometimes found in US citizens that pisses me off. Brother watches his sister naked? Put him in chains! Mother makes a photography of her kid in a bathtub? In the clink! Holocaust denials? Hail Free speech!
other forms of social radicalism (homosexuality, pregnancy/abortion, liberalism, etc.) So pregnancy and liberalism are social radicalism for you? Figures.
what good is profanity? What is profanity? What good is free speech?
>Palm's battery life is depend on their color. The Palm IIIc is said to have a standby time of weeks (two weeks with 40min daily use). Even if it is only half that, it's still more than ten time of Yopy's. >palm has just two color black and white.. 4-color grayscale. >i don't know what is better... Depends, but 12h are not enough anyway.
I can symaphtize with you wishing for a decent PDA running Linux, but this thing has (according to a Samsung guy at the CeBIT) a battery life of 4 hours working, 10-12 hours on standby.
Utterly useless for a PDA, the Palm has more like 10-12 weeks.
I use the Cherry G80-5000 (w/o W95-keys) for several years now and I like it very much. The seperate numblock is great. With a trackpoint it would be perfect for me. As it is, the worst I can say is that it gets dirty like the others.
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Copyright is still valid. You bought one copy and can sell it as you like, but you are not allowed to copy it.
>Could this mean that you could void the GPL after the initial sale in Germany?
Nope.
>If I've gotten a CD (say in the back of >O'Reilly's Apache book) can I now sell that
>CD for more than the cost of the media? Of course you can. Why shouldn't you?
No way. This is about ownership, not copyright.
I wonder why nobody (at 2+) mentioned this to be absoluetly dependent on the english language. While qwerty has it's drawbacks, you can adapt it easily to any script using latin characters and not quite easily to any script using a similar alphabet. To use Fitaly with anything but English is stupid.
>The ultimate solid state IT device... You are easy to please. Diamond Age's mediatronic paper is what you need.
It took Germany about 20 years from November 1918 to November 1938.
Did they last long? Exactly
That's beyond the point. The change did take place and the German people did not get rid of it themselves.
The level of technology was high (just think of Zuse), but you don't need that for control. Some camps and later the eastern front did nicely, thank you.
You cannot design a system that can't be defeated -- and the larger the system, the easier it is to defeat it.
And silicon is getting smaller and smaller.
Also, that sort of thing takes /time/, so if it were to happen, it would take roughly three generations
Guess again. It took Germany about 20 years from November 1918 to November 1938.
I think that 1984 is the only book everyone should read, and I see a certain kind of novel becoming history books since The Sheep look up, so I'm certainly not one to disagree with the general idea of Database Nation.
But from what I take from the reviews (the book is ordered), the book puts slightly to much blame on the government. Most people forget that the government is not independent from its citizens. So if no laws exists that prevent data abuse, there are not enough people who cares.
For another look at the matter I recommend David Brin's Transparent Society.
I hope you're joking. It's not funny though.
Pretty soon you end up with kids that have a real swearing problem
There is no swearing problem. If you children use swear words without meaning it, you have to explain the words. If your kids wants to show disgust for something or disrespect, they would use swear words or anything else they can think of.
And eventually, those labels end up circling back to us, the parents, and it tells people that we're not doing a good job
So your reputation is what you care about?
Not only that, but kids with swearing problems often end up in a downward spiral that involves them with crime (theft, etc.)
It's that kind of superficiality sometimes found in US citizens that pisses me off. Brother watches his sister naked? Put him in chains! Mother makes a photography of her kid in a bathtub? In the clink!
Holocaust denials? Hail Free speech!
other forms of social radicalism (homosexuality, pregnancy/abortion, liberalism, etc.)
So pregnancy and liberalism are social radicalism for you? Figures.
what good is profanity?
What is profanity?
What good is free speech?
>Palm's battery life is depend on their color.
The Palm IIIc is said to have a standby time of weeks (two weeks with 40min daily use). Even if it is only half that, it's still more than ten time of Yopy's.
>palm has just two color black and white..
4-color grayscale.
>i don't know what is better...
Depends, but 12h are not enough anyway.
I can symaphtize with you wishing for a decent PDA running Linux, but this thing has (according to a Samsung guy at the CeBIT) a battery life of 4 hours working, 10-12 hours on standby.
Utterly useless for a PDA, the Palm has more like 10-12 weeks.
I use the Cherry G80-5000 (w/o W95-keys) for several years now and I like it very much. The seperate numblock is great. With a trackpoint it would be perfect for me.
As it is, the worst I can say is that it gets dirty like the others.